CONVICTED (2022) | Adam Wardle aka Adam Lancaster, born c. 1999, of Bondfield Crescent, Wombwell, Barnsley – caught on CCTV attacking dog with mop handle. Wardle was filmed punching and kicking the three-year-old tan mastiff cross, called Bobby, before continuing his cowardly attack by using a mop handle to beat the dog. The court heard how the dog had thankfully escaped serious injuries, but a vet found he had sustained grazes, bruises and a bloodshot eye from the beating beside a bin store outside Wardle’s former flat at Holden Court in Barnsley. Victim Bobby In a witness statement, RSPCA inspector Vannessa Reid said postal workers reported seeing the dog being beaten outside the property on April 25, 2022, and they had spotted a man walking away. After discovering the incident matched a report to the charity by South Yorkshire Police, the inspector went to an assisted accommodation block, where a housing officer went through CCTV footage recorded by a camera opposite Wardle’s flat. Inspector Reid accompanied a police officer to Wardle’s home, where he admitted the attack and when asked why he had done it, replied: “He (Bobby) toileted inside and I got angry. Then he did it again and I got doubly angry and that’s what you’ve seen.” Bobby was collected later from the property of a friend of the defendant, where Wardle claimed he’d taken the dog ‘for his own safety’. The inspector took Bobby to a vets where he was checked out and treated with painkillers. A vet stated in his expert report that he found several bruises to the dog’s face, elbows and hocks, while Bobby also had a small cut on his left eye. He will now be rehomed. Sentencing | 12-month community order with 20 rehabilitation activity days and 240 hours of unpaid work; £495 in costs and victim surcharge. 10-year ban. Yorkshire Live Sheffield Star